Journey into the Arch territory

Screenshot within Arch

PS: This is my personal experience of using Arch Linux and should not be taken serious in any way.

After hearing about Arch Linux from many forums I thought to try it. First impression, it's fresh and different. You start with almost nothing and then install packages, even those built by the users of Arch itself.

First I went to the official website to download Arch minimal ISO. Then I created a live USB in my laptop and used it to boot up to the minimal Arch system.

How Gnome is Awesome!!! - How I installed Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 and configured it for my use

About my laptop

1. Model - Dell Studio 1555 laptop that I bought in India.
2. Processor - Intel Centrino Core 2. 
3. RAM - 4GB
4. Hard disk - 500 GB 
• Of which a 64 GB partition contains just Windows OS installation. ( only 5.7 GB is free)
• 10 GB for GNU/Linux alone. 
• And rest of the partition is NTFS, which I share between GNU/Linux and Windows.
5. Graphics - ATI 4570HD 512MB

The Operating system Installation

I wanted to install the version of  Ubuntu or Fedora that had the new kernel - 3.11 . It has some good power management code for the ATI graphics card. I want to use the open source driver because I had random issues with the proprietary driver in the past and I don't play games in my laptop. It was a bad decision I made when I purchased this laptop some years ago. To this day I regret buying this model that had this proprietary graphics card. I tried Fedora 19 for some time. It was rock solid. It never broke down between updates like Ubuntu used to. But couldn't do most of the simple things that Ubuntu could through a GUI. I have four android devices (2 phones and 2 tablets) at home and I wanted to play movies and music from my laptop when it is ON. I tried the basic share available in Gnome 3.6 in Fedora 19. I was not able to find a client in Android to use it. I couldn't even access it in my other netbook that had Elementary OS in it. So tried using samba. And it also didn't work. I didn't try any commands on the terminal. Because I was spoilt by the GUI provided by Ubuntu which I was used to.

Mother of all gadgets - Specs that makes you look smarter, I mean for real

I believe that the future of all mobile phones,tablets,PCs and TVs that we all own will converge into something like the "Project Glass". You want to know why, then just continue reading.

 

There are four different areas that will be relevant in the future no matter what gadget people will use:-

Gnome Shell Vs Unity

It's really amazing to see how open source software development works. It's too natural. Open software is the only place where one can observe socialism and evolution in its true practical sense. It unites people from various cultures and countries and make a big nation where everyone can be proud and be a part of it . I love open source for this very reason. I never felt this, because it's free or it is more powerful than the commercial counterparts(Well it is in some cases). Open source  is like a tree. The trunk will be very strong to support it's branches. As the tree grows some branches may be weak and some will be strong. But this tree will never stop growing.

The first distribution I used was Redhat. And that's when I came to know about Gnome and KDE. After using both for sometime, it was very clear ,Gnome for its simple design was the best DE for GNU/Linux. And ever since I have been

Random logo

I love to make logos. And also enjoy logo's that others create. It all started after I bought my second computer. I started making icons for different folders on my computer.
Sometime back I created a logo for my friend who was about to start a new animation production company. It got rejected. And  I learnt an important lesson.  Work is always depend on the client you work for. If you don't understand them properly, then they will never like what you make. Your work gets easier when you understand the person you deal with.
But if the company is run by more than two people, its easier to try out your way(in short I mean chances are more - atleast [probability] one person in the company would trust you). Only then you can make something different.
And most of the time, the concepts that you make will work out on some other project ,so don't throw them away. Collect them. Have that kind of attitude. And everything will work out.

HOW TO reinstall grub

Most of the time I install any OS on my computer, I search google to get a guide to recover grub. I forget how to do it every single time. So I thought I'll put in online.

Note:This works for ubuntu 10.10.

Insert install disc and

Chrome OS vs Other OSes(Windows,Mac OSX,Ubuntu) - Cloud computing

There is so much doubt about Chrome OS. What can it do? Why do we need something like it? Will it overcome what Windows operating system did to the world of micro-computers? These are questions people ask when they hear about chrome. And it should always be answered with another question. Will cloud computing

Voyage towards 3D

I saw a computer for the first time at a friend's place when I was eight. It was an Apple Macintosh computer. I was not interested in using it, rather I was interested to understand how it works. It is great to see a device that can do so many things. Even now, when I see games and various applications, I always wonder how

Automate downloads in Ubuntu

I live in India. And broadband service in India is mainly provided by BSNL. The connection (BBGFN 500) I have taken gives me 2 GB download/upload cap at normal hours and unlimited download from 2AM to 8AM. But the problem is to wake up at that time. So one should schedule downloads using various tools. And since I use Ubuntu 10.10 ,there is already a tool called crontab to schedule programs. For GUI use just install gnome-schedule from the Ubuntu Software Center.

First the network connection is

Intro

My name is Fazil Abdul Lathif.Today is my birthday and I am happy to start this blog.This will contain WIP,tutorials links...